Robert Peters writes:

>The word order of the sentence makes definitely clear that there is only
>one translation: The German even thinks of God as a singer of songs

I'm no teacher of German, but do speak and read it daily, and Robert is
right.  A hint, though, of ambiguity is lent by the use and placing of the
word "selbst"--which the German ear will understand, depending on context,
as meaning either "even" or "(one)self)".  Here it almost certainly means
"even".

Denis Fodor